Optimising Youth Wellbeing, Learning, and Elite Development in Dual Career Environments (WeLive DC)
Main funder
Funder's project number: OKM/39/626/2017
Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 380 000,00
Funding program
Project timetable
Project start date: 01/04/2018
Project end date: 31/03/2023
Summary
This project responds to European Union initiatives for safeguarding the development of young talented sportsmen and sportswomen (EU 2007, 2008, 2012), validating non-formal and informal learning (EU 2015), and is aligned with 2015 Exercise Act passed by the Finnish Government to promote a socially responsible development of high achievement sports. Despite increasing structural efforts to ensure ethical and sustainable development of sport at all levels in Europe, research literature indicates that young talented athletes often find it challenging to simultaneously engage in athletic and academic/vocational training, and many of them compromise educational accomplishments in an attempt to mobilize their elite career development. While most young athletes are immersed in dual career environments that provide them with supporting services, they often lack formal training and/or work experience which would facilitate their life design and exploration of the future in the transition to the labor market during or after their athletic careers. As societal values for elite sport are declining among Finnish youth (LIITU 2016), it seems to be particularly important to examine the effectiveness of high-performance training centers in supporting youth positive development, wellbeing and lifelong learning, as well as to develop a guiding framework for educational institutions to recognize and credit non-formal and informal learning experiences of athletes. The proposed action will result in a more holistic and dynamic understanding of how young people construct their lives in and through sport and the role of dual career environments in elite development and lifelong learning.
Principal Investigator
Other persons related to this project (JYU)
Primary responsible unit
Fields of science
Follow-up groups
- Behaviour change, health, and well-being across the lifespan (University of Jyväskylä JYU) BC-Well
- Multidisciplinary research on learning and teaching (University of Jyväskylä JYU) MultiLeTe
- School of Wellbeing (University of Jyväskylä JYU) JYU.Well
- Teacher education research (teaching, learning, teacher, learning paths, education) (University of Jyväskylä JYU) JYU.Edu; Formerly JYU.Ope
Keywords (YSO)
Free keywords
dual career, informal learning, youth wellbeing, life design, dual career development environment
Related publications and other outputs
- The role of individual and parental expectations in student-athletes’ career adaptability profiles (2022) Nikander, Jaakko; et al.; A1; OA
- A taxonomy of dual career development environments in European countries (2021) Morris, Robert; et al.; A1; OA
- Implications of the Identity Position for Dual Career Construction : Gendering the Pathways to (Dis)continuation (2021) Ryba, Tatiana V.; et al.; A1; OA
- Sukupuoli ja valmennustyyli vaikuttavat opiskelevien urheilijoiden urapolkuihin (2021) Saarinen, Milla; et al.; D1; OA
- Superwomen? Young sporting women, temporality and learning not to be perfect (2021) Ronkainen, Noora J; et al.; A1; OA
- Urheilu-uran yhdistäminen koulutukseen : kaksoisuraympäristöt ja urheilulukioiden menestystekijät Suomessa (2021) Nikander, Aku; et al.; A1; OA
- Antecedents and Consequences of Student-Athletes’ Identity Profiles in Upper Secondary School (2020) Moazami-Goodarzi, A.; et al.; A1; OA
- Developing narrative identities in youth pre-elite sport : bridging the present and the future (2020) Ronkainen, Noora J.; et al.; A1; OA
- Development and first application of the athlete adaptation inventory : an exploratory study (2020) Ryba, Tatiana V.; et al.; A1; OA
- Development of School and Sport Burnout in Adolescent Student-Athletes : A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study (2020) Sorkkila, Matilda; et al.; A1; OA
